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Decreation and the Ethical Bind: Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other by Yoon Sook Cha 9780823275250
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.30In Simone Weil's philosophical and literary work, obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: the other's self-affirmation and one's own dislocation; what one has and what one has to... -
Mirror of Obedience: The Poems and Selected Prose of Simone Weil by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 9781350250680
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.24Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the foremost French philosophers of the 20th century; a mystic, activist, and writer whose profound work continues to intrigue and inspire today. Mirror of... -
The French Historical Narrative and the Fall of France: Simone Weil and her Contemporaries Face the Debacle by Christine Ann Evans 9781793646668
Booksplease Price: £86.43The fall of France in June 1940, La Debacle, posed a challenge to France's understanding of itself. Could the existing "sacred" narrative of French history established by the Third Republic hold in... -
Weaving the World: Simone Weil on Science, Mathematics, and Love by Vance G. Morgan 9780268034870
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.69Weaving the World uses Simone Weil's philosophy of science and mathematics as an introduction to the thought of one of the most powerful philosophical and theological minds of the twentieth century... -
A Selection of Short Essays on Simone Weil's Life and Writings by Helen E Cullen 9781039171640
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039171640Author Helen E CullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint -
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being by Simone Weil 9780241467978
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could beWhat do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone Weil, one of the... -
Between the Human and the Divine: The Political Thought of Simone Weil by Mary G. Dietz 9780847675753
Booksplease Price: £56.66Between the Human and the Divine will introduce American readers to one of the most complex, troubled and troubling, luminous, path-breaking and neglected minds of our time. Dietz has taken an... -
A Selection of Short Essays on Simone Weil's Life and Writings by Helen E Cullen 9781039171657
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039171657Author Helen E CullenFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint -
The French Historical Narrative and the Fall of France: Simone Weil and her Contemporaries Face the Debacle by Christine Ann Evans 9781793646682
Booksplease Price: £33.49The fall of France in June 1940, La Debacle, posed a challenge to France's understanding of itself. Could the existing "sacred" narrative of French history established by the Third Republic hold in... -
The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 9780367759568
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book draws on Iris Murdoch's philosophy to explore questions related to the importance of attention in ethics. In doing so, it also engages with Murdoch's ideas about the existence of a moral... -
Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins by Benjamin P. Davis 9781538171943
Booksplease Price: £75.81Davis demonstrates how Simone Weil's Marxism challenges current neoliberal understandings of the self and of human rights. Explaining her related critiques of colonialism and of political parties, it... -
The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion by Cynthia R. Wallace 9780231214193
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909-1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and the posthumous publication of her writings. She... -
The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later by Professor A.Rebecca Rozelle-Stone 9780567381729
Booksplease Price: £40.38This is a collection of essays examining the life and words of Simone Weil, the late French activist, philosopher, and mystic. In the early 1940s, Simone Weil (1909-1943) wrote that 'the glossy... -
A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil's Life and Writings by Helen E Cullen 9781525501807
RRP: £41.49Booksplease Price: £37.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525501807Author Helen E CullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint -
Rethinking Political Crisis and Collapse: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil Dr Antonio Calcagno 9781666980639
Booksplease Price: £85.65Responses, both critical and constructive, to changing realities in modern politics and society.In gathering these essays, Antonio Calcagno and Mark Yenson have chosen the conceptual lens of crisis... -
The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion by Cynthia R. Wallace 9780231214186
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37Finalist, 2025 Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book AwardsThe French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909-1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her... -
A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil's Life and Writings by Helen E Cullen 9781525501791
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £47.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525501791Author Helen E CullenFormat HardbackPage Count 572Imprint -
Simone Weil's Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins by Benjamin P Davis 9781538171950
Booksplease Price: £33.49This book argues that Simone Weil's short life (1909-1943) is best understood as deeply invested in and engaged with the world around her, which she knew she would leave behind sooner rather than... -
Turning Teaching Inside Out: A Pedagogy of Transformation for Community-Based Education by Simone Weil Davis 9781137564719
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £34.13Using the successful Inside-Out program, in which incarcerated and non-incarcerated college students are taught in the same classroom, this book explores the practice of community-based learning,... -
Turning Teaching Inside Out: A Pedagogy of Transformation for Community-Based Education by Simone Weil Davis 9781137343024
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £35.14Using the successful Inside-Out program, in which incarcerated and non-incarcerated college students are taught in the same classroom, this book explores the practice of community-based learning,... -
Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil by Sylvie Courtine-Denamy
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £20.89Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book. The dark years when the Nazis rose to power are here seen through... -
Awaiting God: A New Translation of Attente de Dieu and Lettre a Un Religieux by Simone Weil 9781927512036
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927512036Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint -
The Sacred Body: Asceticism in Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture by David Jasper 9781602581418
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £25.10Continuing the work began in The Sacred Desert, David Jasper here turns his attention to the body, seeking a profound understanding of what it means to be in the flesh. A deeply autobiographical... -
Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil by Sylvie Courtine-Denamy 9780801435720
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £40.28Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book. The dark years when the Nazis rose to power are here seen through... -
Red Tory, Red Virgin: Essays on Simone Weil and George P. Grant by Dr Brad Jersak 9781927512005
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927512005Author Dr Brad JersakFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint -
Lossless by Matthew Tierney 9781552454794
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Taking its title from lossless data compression algorithms, Lossless transmits through time and space those 'stabs of self' that intensify with loss of relationships, of faith, of childhood, of... -
The Silent God and the Silenced: Mysticism and Contemplation Amid Suffering Min-Ah Cho 9781647124922
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.95A groundbreaking exploration of the transformative power of silence The Silent God and the Silenced: Mysticism and Contemplation amid Suffering explores the theological and spiritual dimensions of... -
The Silent God and the Silenced: Mysticism and Contemplation Amid Suffering Min-Ah Cho 9781647124915
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £85.13A groundbreaking exploration of the transformative power of silence The Silent God and the Silenced: Mysticism and Contemplation amid Suffering explores the theological and spiritual dimensions of... -
Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, Mccarthy, Sontag, Weil by Deborah Nelson
Booksplease Price: £24.80This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single... -
A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love and Truth and Justice Raimond Gaita 9781032912295
Booksplease Price: £19.04Holocaust denial, racism, genocide of indigenous peoples and the long-lasting harms inflicted by colonialism pose deep challenges to any idea of a common humanity. How can we include these and... -
The Cry of the Poor: Liberation Ethics and Justice in Health Care by Alexandre A. Martins 9781498592208
Booksplease Price: £37.81This book offers an interdisciplinary effort to address global health issues grounded on a human rights framework seen from the perspective of those who are more vulnerable to be sick and die... -
Aliens & Anorexia by Chris Kraus
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40It's 1996, and Chris Kraus is in Berlin, seeking a distributor for her film Gravity & Grace, described alternately as 'an experimental 16mm film about hope, despair, religious feeling and conviction'... -
Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, and Etty Hillesum by Rachel Feldhay Brenner
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £30.29In this moving account of the life, work, and ethics of four Jewish women intellectuals in the world of the Holocaust, Rachel Feldhay Brenner explores the ways in which these women sought to maintain... -
Dynamics of Cross-Border Flow-Performance Relationships: The Case of European Equity (UCITS) Funds by Simon Weiler 9783658081539
Booksplease Price: £46.88In order to measure the dynamics of flow-performance relationships for a multi-domicile sample, Simon Weiler applies existing flow-performance research methods to a broad set of European equity... -
Human Goodness Yi-Fu Tuan 9780299226749
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. Human Goodness is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as... -
Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness by Michaela Hulstyn 9781487543761
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £39.11Altered states of consciousness - including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence - can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood... -
Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide by Jonardon Ganeri 9780231192293
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.05Where do we look when we look inward? In what sort of space does our inner life take place? Augustine said that to turn inward is to find oneself in a library of memories, while the Indian Buddhist... -
Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis by John T. McGreevy
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.21In dramatic stories and sweeping panoramas, distinguished historian John T. McGreevy tells the mesmerising story of a Church torn between the forces of reform and reaction for the past 250 years... -
The World in Us: Teaching and Learning Through Global Citizenship Education by Nicholas R. D. Palmer 9798855805741
Booksplease Price: £74.89Reimagines global citizenship education by taking a relational approach, offering educators and scholars new frameworks to navigate complexity and foster meaningful learning experiences.In an era of... -
The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard by Ollivier Pourriol 9781788163286
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Sick of striving? Giving up on grit? Had enough of hustle culture? Daunted by the 10,000-hour rule? Relax: As the French know, it's the best way to be better at everything. In the realm of love,...